Readers,

Well, things are going alright here in Illinois. After being here for about two weeks I already feel pretty comfortable. Sure, the sun is too bright here and I don't have a resistance to all the strains of the cold virus out here (been coughing up phlem for the past week because of it), there is something here that no longer exists in Buffalo. After being here for only a short time, I've already noticed that this area has a lot more people walking around on the sidewalk, driving around, hanging out around town, and just shows a lot more activity. It's like I just walked out of the land of the dead and I must say that it was kind of startling at first.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are people here.

All that aside, there seems to be more job opportunities around here too. Every other place I look there's a job opening. It's almost kind of annoying. The dissadvantage of living here seems to be the the roads weave around a bit more and that a very small minority of people seem to know what the hell they are doing either behind the wheel of a car or at their job. Say what you will about Buffalo, but at least people there try to at least pretend that they are competent. There are no secret morons in NYS (except that one group in Albany that's making all our decisions for us).

As for new art and new ideas, I've been working on it since coming here and I think I have a career goal in mind. I want to do so many things with my life and yet there is so little time that I can't hope to do everything on that big list of mine and still have some time to relax. So, I think I want to get into Biological Engineering and come up with a way to at least slow down the aging process if not completely stop it. By manipulating DNA it may be possible. Who knows? Maybe in a few years you'll see some genetic freak on the front cover of a magazine labeled as "Ignis' newest project".

Peace,

I-V